In this tutorial we will use the CloudWatch datasource in Grafana to create dashboards on our CloudWatch Metrics in AWS. What can we expect in this post If you follow along, by the end of this tutorial you will be
Monitoring
A collection of 12 posts
Install Grafana to Visualize your Metrics from datasources such as Prometheus on Linux
Grafana is a Open Source Dashboarding service that allows you to monitor, analyze and graph metrics from datasources such as prometheus, influxdb, elasticsearch, aws cloudwatch, and many more. Not only is grafana amazing, its super pretty! Example of how a
Install Blackbox Exporter to Monitor Websites with Prometheus
Blackbox Exporter by Prometheus allows probing over endpoints such as http, https, icmp, tcp and dns. What will we be doing In this tutorial we will install the blackbox exporter on linux. Im assuming that you have already set up
Install Pushgateway to Expose Metrics to Prometheus
In most cases when we want to scrape a node for metrics, we will install node-exporter on a host and configure prometheus to scrape the configured node to consume metric data. But in certain cases we want to push custom
Install Alertmanager to Alert based on Metrics from Prometheus
Alert on metrics using Prometheus and Alertmanager. This tutorial will guide you to setup Alertmanager with Prometheus.
Setup Prometheus and Node Exporter on Linux for Epic Monitoring
Prometheus [https://prometheus.io/] is one of those awesome open source monitoring services that I simply cannot live without. Prometheus is a Time Series Database that collects metrics from services using it's exporters functionality. Prometheus has its own
Ship your Logs to Elasticsearch with Filebeat
Filebeat [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/6.7/filebeat-overview.html] by Elastic is a lightweight log shipper, that ships your logs to Elastic products such as Elasticsearch and Logstash. Filbeat monitors the logfiles from the given configuration
Setup NRPE Client and Server for Monitoring Remote Services in Nagios
If you have not setup the Nagios Server [https://blog.ruanbekker.com/blog/2019/03/13/how-to-setup-a-nagios-monitoring-server/] have a look at that link to setup the Nagios server. Nagios NRPE Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) allows you to remotely execute
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